While at the Ottawa when working with New River Academy in 2006 I chanced upon an ICF event and competed. Truth be told, I had a break from the students and went up to hit some mysteries at Smoothie only to find the competition to be in full swing. I was floored by the flat-water skills of some of the paddlers, especially Koyo from Japan - but he was in a plastic boat. He won with 0 seconds underwater & tons of points from flippy things on the surface, while I finished second after throwing a couple cartwheels and dropping some 25+ sec rides. At the time, my understanding of the scoring system was that the mystery move was the multiplier. Now my understanding of the properties of zero in mathematics (I am currently a Math teacher) at the time was that anytime you multiplied zero to something the product was zero. Apparently, that property did not hold true under the scoring system at that time.
From what I can tell now, and maybe someone closer to the ICF stuff (Clay or Stephen) can elaborate on this - is that the current scoring system is more mystery friendly? And that Mathematical Properties of Zero now carry weight at an ICF sponsored event?
Now back to what I find interesting... Has this shift in scoring been made to pull some mystery riders back into the fold at an ICF event or has the scoring change been made to highlight what many of us feel embodies the essence/spirit of squirt boating?Statistics: Posted by Johonbley — Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:42 pm
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